Why Fewer Young American Jews Share Their Parents' View of Israel
September 29, 2011Dana GoldsteinSeptember 29, 2011"I'm trembling," my mother says, when I tell her I'm working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the...
View ArticleBrave Thinkers 2011: Hawa Abdi
November 2011 As her country suffers historic famine, a doctor confronts militant thugs to keep thousands of Somalis alive. Eliza GriswoldOctober 12, 2011On any given morning, Dr. Hawa Abdi wakes at 5...
View ArticleA Troubled Revolution in Egypt
November 22, 2011Katherine ZoepfNovember 22, 2011A decade ago, as a bookish schoolgirl in the southern Egyptian city of Sohag, Samira Ibrahim Mohamed was fascinated by Egyptology and yearned to see the...
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SCOTUS and the Affordable Care Act: The Countdown Begins...
Various groups, including the Attorneys General of twenty-six states, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and several individuals, have sued the federal government over parts of the...
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t Washington Understand the Internet?
January 23, 2012Rebecca MacKinnonJanuary 23, 2012In late 2010, on the eve of the Arab Spring uprisings, a Tunisian blogger asked Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah what democratic nations should do to...
View ArticleThe Trojan Paradox
February 23, 2012 If religious conservatives want to put a stop to abortions, there's no better tool than making contraception a lot more available. And there's a world of good it'll do. Charles...
View ArticleNothing Right About This ‘Cure’
February 13, 2012David RothsteinFebruary 13, 2012It is a great thing when Ohio can point to a model law. The 40-year-old Consumer Sales Practices Act (CSPA), lauded for its broad and solid protections...
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Disarming Viktor Bout
March 5, 2012 The rise and fall of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker. Nicholas SchmidleMarch 5, 2012Viktor Bout made his first major foray into the weapons business in 1995, on a pleasant...
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Florida v. HHS, Round 1: FIGHT!
We're holding off until after the whole oral argument is finished to comment, but there's no use making you wait: the audio is posted for Day 1 of Florida v. HHS, the Supreme Court case that will(?)...
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Florida v. HHS, Round 2: FIGHT!
Day two of argument is posted!Apologies for not managing to post this yesterday, but the oral argument audio from yesterday's consideration of the Miminum Coverage Provision (the individual mandate)....
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Final Round: FIGHT!
Wow. Over six hours of argument later, we're left with... well, a little over six hours of audio. Now we get to wait for the decision--only 89 days to go! (The opinion will almost certainly be issued...
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A Belated SCOTUS Wrap-up, and A Look Forward
Unless you've been living under a whole pile of rocks, you heard about the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services—the Obamacare case. You’ve probably heard...
View ArticleGovernment and the Net Serve Us, Not Vice Versa
May 16, 2012Rebecca MacKinnonMay 16, 2012A global struggle for control of the internet is under way. At stake is nothing less than civil liberties, privacy and democracy itself. Electronic censorship...
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Preserving Access to Justice: Legal Services and the Safety Net
The Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which provides funding to legal services organizations throughout the country, is an essential feature of the safety net—though rarely described as such. LSC...
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Funding Legal Aid is Essential to Preventing Foreclosures
Earlier this summer, I wrote about the significant cuts to the budget of the Legal Services Corporation, which provides funding to around 137 legal aid programs with over nine hundred offices...
View ArticleThe Faith that Faith Produced
August 7, 2012 All-American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim Haroon MoghulAugust 7, 2012I was washing dishes in the kitchen when I stopped believing in God. Years later, I’m often unsettled at how much...
View ArticleMonopolies: Antitrust Law Protects Consumers, Not Competitors
October 16, 2012Marvin AmmoriOctober 16, 2012As we gear up for the presidential debates tonight, it’s worth reflecting on the presidential debates from exactly one hundred years ago.Because the key...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: Taking on Guns and Brains on Trial
Robert Wright weighs in on whether the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will spur a gun control policy change. Kayla Pope and Hank Greely, who we recorded after an October New America...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: The Law of Drones and Relaxation
Rosa Brooks scrutinizes the leaked Justice Department memo that aims to provide legal rationale for the administration's drone program. Brigid Schulte introduces us to surprising research on how to be...
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Asset Building News Week, June 24-28
The Asset Building News Week is a weekly Friday feature on The Ladder, the Asset Building Program blog, designed to help readers keep up with news and developments in the asset building field. This...
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